SOURCE: "The Age of Ghalib," in A History of Urdu Literature, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 228-88.
In the following excerpt, Sadiq stresses the less attractive side of Ghalib's character to bring to light those subconscious traits that largely determined his inner life and therefore his poetry.
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